Becoming Quote by William Cowper

The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible…

— Jean Cocteau

Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

— Adelaide Hasse

“Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's…

— Ayn Rand

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

— Anonymous

There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity…

— Henry Miller

“Sometimes I think, were I just a little rougher made, I would go altogether to the woods—to my work entirely, and solitude, a few…

— Mary Oliver

All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me…

— Carl Jung

"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or…

— Marshall McLuhan

“Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what we are doing; but it becomes a curse when its sole use…

— Paulo Coelho

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

No work stains a man who is pure, who is in harmony, who is master of his life, whose soul is one with the…

— Bhagavad Gita

...It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I…

— Paul Banks